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Paris pollution: 'Like smoking 183 cigarettes a year'
TheLocal.fr ^ | 10 August 2018 15:27 CEST+02:00

Posted on 08/10/2018 5:37:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai

The air pollution in Paris is so bad that visiting the city for a long weekend means you have as good as smoked two cigarettes and those living in the city smoke the equivalent of 183 a year, a new study reveals. […]

“When air pollution is bad, we are told to avoid eating or exercising outside,” Transport & Environment’s Jens Müller said. “But walking around cities and eating on restaurant terraces is what city breaks are all about. Right now, tourists, including kids, are more or less forced to smoke, in terms of the health impacts.”

However, the French capital fares slightly better than London, where a similar stay amounts to puffing 2.75 cigarettes. Istanbul and Prague are the worst of this air pollution “top ten”, with a four-day stay in these cities equivalent of smoking one cigarette a day. In Milan the number is 3, followed by Amsterdam and Vienna, which are the same as Paris. Air quality measured best are Barcelona and Dublin with 1.

The group’s research was based on research that measures “PM2.5 particles”, the most commonly-measured form of air pollution, which are particulate matter measuring 2.5 micrometers or less. …

(Excerpt) Read more at thelocal.fr ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Local News; Travel
KEYWORDS: airpollution; france; paris; particulates
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I don’t buy the claims about Dublin. Its traffic jams are utterly horrendous.
1 posted on 08/10/2018 5:37:10 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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2 posted on 08/10/2018 5:39:26 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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The average Parisian probably smokes 183 cigarettes a week.


3 posted on 08/10/2018 5:39:33 PM PDT by Hugin ("I fear for Hugin that he will not come back, yet I tremble more for Munin.")
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those living in the city smoke the equivalent of 183 a year

That's actually not too bad. That's only one cigarette every two days.
4 posted on 08/10/2018 5:47:54 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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It may be poor air quality....but it’s not a pack-a-day of Chesterfield Kings.


5 posted on 08/10/2018 5:48:14 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Hugin

As frenchies smoke and then die from lung cancer, it’ll be easier for the invaders to take over.


6 posted on 08/10/2018 5:49:50 PM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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My late father smoked those. And his brother smoked English Ovals.


7 posted on 08/10/2018 5:50:44 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Unless the Muzzies smoke even more.


8 posted on 08/10/2018 5:51:22 PM PDT by Hugin ("I fear for Hugin that he will not come back, yet I tremble more for Munin.")
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Even if they do, their replacement is higher.


9 posted on 08/10/2018 5:52:22 PM PDT by wally_bert (Terrific! Terrific? Harve Nyquist never ordered any radials.)
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I was going thru the Paris Airport on change of station move and bought a pack of French cig’s. OMG!! Never again! If you smoked 183 of those your lungs should look like they were BBQ’d.


10 posted on 08/10/2018 5:58:45 PM PDT by TaMoDee (The Pack will be back in 2018! Go Pack!!)
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“Paris pollution: ‘Like smoking 183 cigarettes a year’”

Oh the humanity!

A pack of Gitanes, a bottle of wine, a block of cheese and a
REAL woman... a French woman.


11 posted on 08/10/2018 5:58:58 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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Maybe so, but he takes 183 showers in a lifetime, assuming he lives to the age of 90.


12 posted on 08/10/2018 6:05:30 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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Maybe so, but he takes 183 showers in a lifetime, assuming he lives to the age of 90.


13 posted on 08/10/2018 6:05:41 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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Maybe so, but he takes 183 showers in a lifetime, assuming he lives to the age of 90.


14 posted on 08/10/2018 6:05:43 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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Maybe so, but he takes 183 showers in a lifetime, assuming he lives to the age of 90.


15 posted on 08/10/2018 6:05:47 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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Well, that bears repeating.       :-)

But, on the serious side, Parisians' notorious "l'odeur corporelle" (body odor) might seem to call for 183 showers per month (or so).

16 posted on 08/10/2018 6:14:32 PM PDT by Songcraft
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That's actually not too bad. That's only one cigarette every two days.

Yea, but smoking just one cig will shorten your life by 12 years. Just seeing someone smoke a cig will shorten your life 6 years. At least that's what they say.

17 posted on 08/10/2018 6:16:33 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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In pulmonology terms, if you smoke a pack a day for a year, that’s a “pack year”. Two packs a day in a year would be two pack-years.

After 30 pack-years of damage there is a measurable difference in pulmonary function (forced expiratory volume or FEV) in old age that is unrecoverable.

183 cigs a year, or just over 9 packs, will not have any measurable impact. It would take 1216 years of living in Paris to get measurable damage.


18 posted on 08/10/2018 6:18:24 PM PDT by fruser1
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My brother smoked pack a day since age 23, and lived to age 83, and died of a heart attack from gaining too much weight. No lung cancer.


19 posted on 08/10/2018 6:26:09 PM PDT by entropy12 (Trump/Pence 2020)
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Wonder how MJs that would equal?


20 posted on 08/10/2018 6:45:17 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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